Re: [Debconf-team] dc13 draft budget, 2012-11-20
On 21/11/12 10:59, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Dienstag, 20. November 2012, Richard Darst wrote:
>> Here is found a draft budget:
>> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debconf-data/dc13/accounting/budget.ods?v
>> iew=co
>
> thanks a lot for working on this, Richard + Philipp!
>
> (I do think the budget is very very conservative, but thats good for now.)
>
>
> On as sidenote: can budget-darst.ods and budget-gaudenz.ods now be deleted
> from svn?
>
>
>> People aren't going to like this budget. The options are:
>> - wait and see if the sponsorship basket continues to go like it is.
>> We should know a lot more in only a month, and then hug and I will
>> revise the number of attendees upward.
>>
>> - Propose specific plans for getting more income from attendees, and
>> see what people think.
>>
>> - Cut even more things (but there really isn't much room for that...)
>>
>> - What else?
>
> get more sponsorship! "wait and see if the sponsorship basket continues..." is
> not really the same.
>
> Before we go (even) more into panic mode, I seriously recommend to just work
> on getting more sponsors.
>
> And also, before we without panic, just get more creative about new sources of
> income (be it bed upselling or using other ways for getting money from
> attendees or doing whatever), I seriously recommend to just work on getting
> more sponsors now.
>
> Right now, working on getting sponsors is the most sensible thing to do.
> Anything else can wait for two or three more months at least.
>
> There is no need for hurry now, except... I said it three times in this mail
> already :)
I agree - there is no need for hurry, the contract can wait. If Le Camp
refuses to wait and doesn't accept us any more, but we raise a whole lot
of money, we will have plenty of other venues to choose from.
And on the other hand, if we don't raise enough money, then we never
could have gone to Le Camp anyway.
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